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Adobe Illustrator CC

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With Illustrator CC, you always have access to new features as soon as they’re released. On an older version? Compare features ›

Illustrator CC (2017)

Nov022016

Pixel-perfect artwork creation

Draw paths and shapes that seamlessly align to the pixel grid. Align existing artwork with a single click or by using simple transformations. Preserve Live Shapes and rounded corners, maintain alignment when scaling and rotating objects, and manually nudge segments and end points into perfect alignment.

Faster font finding

Mark individual fonts as favorites to quickly find the one you need. Filter your list to see fonts you’ve recently used, find other fonts that are similar to one you like, or find fonts based on classifications like serif or handwritten.

Easier use of glyphs

Use alternate glyphs for any character by simply selecting the character and choosing from an in-context menu. View and insert your most recently used glyphs, and sort glyphs for faster browsing.

Quicker start to your designs

Jump-start design projects with easy access to presets as well as free Adobe Stock templates that you can access right from the File > New menu.

Adobe Stock templates and search

Adobe Stock includes new design templates, and now you can drag and drop Adobe Stock search results from your Libraries panel right into your canvas to start using right away. Plus, you can right-click on a stock image to do a visual search for similar images.

New Creative Cloud Libraries capabilities

Libraries in Illustrator now support Adobe Stock templates. Plus, Send Link has been updated so you can now share read-only access to a public library. When you follow a library, it appears in your Libraries panel and updates automatically.

Creative Cloud Assets improvements

Archive and restore all your assets stored in Creative Cloud, including the ones in your Creative Cloud Libraries, assets created with your desktop products, and mobile projects.

Introducing Typekit Marketplace

Now you can buy fonts from some of the industry’s biggest names and use them in your Illustrator projects. Adobe Typekit uses its font sync and web technologies to deliver your Marketplace fonts anywhere you need them.

Font and text enhancements

See a live preview by hovering over the font list with selected text, place loaded text inside a container, or fill a container with placeholder text to better visualize your designs. Easily work with type objects that have a common font family but different styles, and vice-versa.

Zoom to selection

View and edit faster now that you can zoom into anything you’ve selected — an active point, a segment, a path, or an object.

Modern user experience

A flat UI and new icons for tools and panels offer a cleaner look and help you focus on your artwork.

And so much more

Also includes: New keyboard shortcuts, stability improvements, and more.

Illustrator CC (2015.3.1)

Aug102016

Adobe Stock search inside Illustrator

Access millions of high-quality Adobe Stock illustrations, vectors, and photos to use in your designs right from the search field in Illustrator. Your results will appear instantly on the Adobe Stock website.

Illustrator CC (2015.3)

Jun202016

Better collaboration with libraries

Control assets in read-only Creative Cloud Libraries so they can be used by team members, but not changed or deleted.See how it works ›

Updated Libraries panel

Find the assets you need faster with a larger Libraries panel, new filtered search of Adobe Stock, and icons that make it easy to identify licensed Adobe Stock assets.

Improved Adobe Stock integration

License Adobe Stock assets directly in Illustrator via the Libraries and Links panels. And when browsing assets on the Adobe Stock website, open assets directly in Illustrator.

Fast export of assets and artboards

Select individual assets from one or more artboards, or choose entire artboards, and click once to export them to multiple sizes, resolutions, and formats perfect for screen, web, and icon workflows.See how it works ›

Live Shapes and Transform panel updates

A consistent visual experience makes it easier to work with Live Shapes. Controls automatically hide as shapes are scaled to small sizes, and polygons maintain live characteristics after non-uniform scaling. Plus, shapes and paths can be reset to their original rotation in the Transform panel.See how it works ›

Adobe Portfolio to showcase work

Now when you use Portfolio to show off your Illustrator designs and artwork, you can create custom landing and contact pages to better connect with viewers.See how it works ›

Adobe XD integration

Copy and paste your Illustrator CC artwork directly into Adobe Experience Design CC (Preview), the new all-in-one tool for designing and prototyping user experiences for websites and mobile apps.See how it works ›

And so much more

Also includes: The ability to scroll through stroke width and text sizes in proper increments; guides that stay unlocked when hidden; the ability to turn the Pen tool into the Direct Selection tool by pressing Cmd/Ctrl when drawing; and more.See full release notes ›

Illustrator CC (2015.2)

Nov302015

New Creative Cloud Libraries capabilities

Find content faster by searching across your libraries and across Adobe Stock. Import color swatches and color groups, save color themes from libraries to swatches, and get support for paragraph styles, as well as deeper support for character styles.

Shaper tool

Draw shapes with loose, natural gestures that transform into perfect geometric shapes. Then combine, delete, fill, and transform these shapes to create beautiful, complex designs that stay fully editable. The Shaper tool works with the traditional Illustrator workspaces as well as the Touch workspace.

Dynamic Symbols

Symbols can now share a master shape but be modified to have different appearances such as stroke, fill, and opacity. Scale, rotate, mirror, and skew them without having to break the link to the parent symbol.

New SVG export option

Touch workspace updates

The Touch workspace for Windows tablets adds the Shaper tool, new Live shapes, enhanced Smart Guides, an option to easily zoom when using a mouse, and support for HP Sprout.

Adobe Capture CC integration

Use an iPad, iPhone, or Android phone to turn any image into a production-ready asset. Extract a color theme or create a brush, shape, or vector graphic, and then save the asset to your Creative Cloud Libraries to use in Illustrator.

Illustrator Draw for Android

Create free-form vector designs on your Android phone with the Adobe Illustrator Draw app, and then send your work to Illustrator on your desktop to refine it further.

Enhanced Adobe Comp CC integration, plus iPhone support

Now you can use Comp CC to explore layout possibilities on your iPhone as well as your iPad. Assets in Comp can be linked so that when you edit them in Illustrator or another Creative Cloud desktop app, they’ll instantly update in Comp.

And so much more

Illustrator CC (2015)

Jun152015

Linked assets for universal updates

Assets in Creative Cloud Libraries can now be linked so that when a change is made to an asset, you and your team members have the option of updating it across any Illustrator, Photoshop, or InDesign projects where it’s used.See how it works ›

Adobe Stock to find the perfect image

The new Adobe Stock marketplace lets you find, license, and manage royalty-free images and vectors from within Illustrator CC. Select from 40 million assets, save your selection to your Creative Cloud Libraries, and then drag it into your project to use.See how it works ›

10x faster zoom, pan, and scroll

Thanks to an Adobe Mercury Performance System boost, you can pan, zoom, and scroll more than 10 times faster and more smoothly without slow, stepped changes.See how it works ›

10x greater zoom magnification

Zoom into your artwork up to 64000% (up from 6400%) so you can create and edit with greater precision.See how it works ›

Auto-recovery of files

Never lose your work if Illustrator crashes and you’ve forgotten to save. Just relaunch and your file will be restored. Illustrator gives you the option of quickly diagnosing what caused the crash, such as a corrupt font, out-of-date driver, or missing plug-in.See how it works ›

Integration with new Adobe Comp CC

Create layouts for print, web, or mobile on your iPad. Pull creative assets into Comp from your or your team’s shared Creative Cloud Libraries, and then instantly send your layouts to Illustrator. All your text, images, and graphics are live and fully editable.See how it works ›

Use of Photoshop Sketch art in large-format designs

Scale Photoshop Sketch drawings up to four times their original size with no loss in quality.

And so much more

Also includes: New free-form merge/subtract mode for the Shapebuilder tool; Curvature tool updates for more flexible drawing; multiple enhancements to the Touch workspace; and much more.See full release notes ›

Illustrator CC (2014.1)

Oct062014

Creative Cloud Libraries

Browse and access your favorite creative assets — colors, type styles, graphics, brushes, and more — in new libraries that are available in Illustrator, Photoshop, and mobile apps like Sketch and Draw. Libraries sync to Creative Cloud so you always have the files you need, right when you need them.See how it works ›

Touch workspace

Access the full power of Illustrator on the go using a new workspace optimized for your Microsoft Surface Pro 3 or any Windows 8 tablet. Get essential tools for drawing and editing with a pen and your finger in a touch environment, including French curves that you can scale, move, and trace.See how it works ›

Curvature tool

Draw refined curves and straight lines quickly and visually. Click once with the Curvature tool to place points and see the curve flex around them dynamically, or double-click to create corner points for straight lines. Edit using the same tool — no need to hassle with anchor points and handles.See how it works ›

Join tool

Easily join paths that cross, overlap, or have open ends — and simultaneously trim unwanted segments — without affecting the original path trajectories.See how it works ›

Area-type auto-sizing

Integration with the Illustrator family of mobile apps

Seamlessly bring in artwork from Sketch, Line, and Draw, and enhance it using the full range of Illustrator tools for a complete mobile-to-desktop design workflow.See how it works ›

Color and shape inspiration anywhere

Create custom brushes, graphics, and colors using the Brush CC, Shape CC, and Color CC mobile apps, and then easily bring them into Illustrator via Creative Cloud Libraries to incorporate them into your designs.See how it works ›

Illustrator CC (2014)

Jun182014

Live Shapes: Rectangles and Rounded Rectangles

Rectangles now have quickly modifiable corners, including independent radius control. Corner attributes are retained if you scale and rotate your rectangle. Now Illustrator remembers your work — width, height, rotation, corner treatment — so you can return to your original shape.See how it works ›

Pen tool preview

See the path you’re drawing before you drop your next point. A rubberband-like line from your last anchor point to the tip of the pen appears as you draw. Visualize where the next curve will go as you plot your next point — and spend less time cleaning up paths.See how it works ›

Anchor point enhancements

Fine adjustment of curves is now easier. New anchor point controls allow unequal or different-direction handles to be dragged as you draw to control the smoothness of each segment. You can even change a corner point to smooth without ruining your shape.See how it works ›

Snap to pixel, point, and grid updates

When snapping is turned on, your anchor points align perfectly to your choice of pixel, grid, or point. But your anchor handles should not. They’re now disengaged from snapping so you can preserve the precision of your curves and achieve fine control while editing.See how it works ›

Better path control

Close your paths with precision and predictability. As you complete a drawing, you now have more control connecting the end and start points. Reposition your closing point or choose to break the direction lines to adjust the closing curve exactly as you wish.See how it works ›

Windows GPU acceleration

New GPU acceleration for Windows lets you work faster on Windows 7 or 8 computers. This feature requires an Adobe-certified NVIDIA graphics card with at least 1GB of VRAM.See GPU release notes ›

Illustrator CC (17.1)

Jan162014

Live Corners

Edit and re-edit the corners of shapes and paths with on-art controls or by entering values in the Control panel or new Corners dialog box. You can round, invert, or chamfer one or multiple corners at the same time.See how it works ›

Rebuilt Pencil tool

Draw curves more accurately with options to extend and close paths and draw straight lines. Use presets to create smooth paths with fewer points or more precise renditions of actual strokes. This new technology extends to the Brush, Blob Brush, and Smooth tools.See how it works ›

Path segment reshaping

Drag path segments into the shape you desire. New path reshaping technology, available in the Anchor Point and Direct Selection tools and accessible from the Pen tool, provides a more direct and intuitive way to edit path segments.See how it works ›

Adobe Typekit integration

Browse fonts from Typekit in the Type or Font Family menus, whether filtering directly in-menu or launching the Typekit website. Select from a growing library of desktop fonts from Typekit, sync them to your computer, and then use them right away in your projects.See how it works ›

Windows 8 support for touch and pen pressure

Work with a pressure-sensitive pen on the latest Windows 8 tablet computers, along with enhanced direct touch support. Enjoy HiDPI display support for computers running Windows 7 and 8.

Custom Tools panels

Create specialized toolsets by dragging and dropping just the tools you need — like drawing, editing, or selection tools — into a custom panel. The full Tools panel can then be hidden, allowing for a clean, efficient workspace.See how it works ›

Settings import and export

Share your Illustrator settings across multiple computers. Simply export them to a folder where they can then be imported by other users. While Sync Settings lets you standardize settings on your own computers, now you can also share them across your organization.See how it works ›

Perspective drawing enhancements

Modify perspective grid attributes, such as vanishing points and the horizon line, and your artwork dynamically updates to match the new perspective.

Responsive SVG export

Export scalable, responsive SVG files that can adapt to different screen sizes and resolutions, and roundtrip-edit SVG files that maintain precise pixel alignment.See how it works ›

And so much more

This update also offers many other improvements, including the ability to resize artboards from the center, Fill/Stroke controls in the Swatches panel, sliders that control opacity, layers that remember open/closed state, and quick-canceling drag operations.See full release notes ›

Illustrator CC (17)

Jun172013

Touch Type tool

Design with type by manipulating characters like individual objects. Move, scale, and rotate text, and still change the font or edit at any time. You can use multitouch devices as well as a mouse or stylus.See how it works ›

Images in brushes

Paint with a brush made from a photo. Art, Pattern, and Scatter brushes can contain raster images, so you can create complex organic designs quickly — with simple brushstrokes. As with all Illustrator brushes, your strokes can be reshaped and modified at will.See how it works ›

Font search

Quickly find the perfect font, fast. In the Character panel, type a style such as “bold” or “italic,” a font family, or any other part of a font name. You’ll get a filtered view that lets you see just the fonts that match your criteria.See how it works ›

Multiple file place

Import multiple files into your Illustrator layout at the same time and with control. Use thumbnail views to define the location and size of your files, which can be images, graphics, or text.

CSS extraction

Take visual designs to the web faster by letting Illustrator generate CSS code for you. Copy/paste or export code for text, objects, even entire layouts with images, directly into your HTML editor or for handoff to a web developer.See how it works ›

Color syncing

Capture color themes out in the world with the Adobe Kuler iPhone app. Share your themes and explore thousands of others available on the Kuler website. Sync your favorite themes, and they’ll be accessible immediately in Illustrator.

Sync Settings

Synchronize your settings, including preferences, presets, libraries, and workspaces, to Creative Cloud and have the same working settings and environment on multiple computers, Mac or PC.See how it works ›

Auto corners for pattern brushes

Create pattern brushes quickly with a choice of auto-generated corners that perfectly match the rest of the pattern.See how it works ›

On-art Free Transform tool

Move, scale, and rotate objects directly using a touchscreen device. Or use a mouse or other pointer right on the artboard to transform objects in a more immediate and intuitive way.See how it works ›

Exchange panel

Discover plug-ins, extensions, templates, and other content that you can purchase or download for free from the new Adobe Exchange panel in Illustrator.

File packaging

With a single command, you can gather all your files, including linked graphics and fonts, into a single folder for organization or to hand off.

Unembedded images

Replace embedded images with links to their extracted PSD or TIFF files by selecting the image and choosing Unembed from the Links panel menu or clicking Unembed in the Control panel.

Expanded Links panel option

View and track additional information about placed artwork directly in the Links panel.

And so much more

This update offers many other enhancements, including the ability to export unused SVG graphic styles, an option to avoid white overprint, support for Indic languages, and more.See full release notes ›